Traffic-management switches are quickly becoming easier to deploy and support, with greater intelligence to repel more sophisticated application attacks
- By Hariharan Krishnan
- 04/01/2004
You'll never truly see the beauty of Exchange 2003 unless you migrate. Here are five tools to make that move quicker and easier.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 04/01/2004
You can adapt the logical perimeter network design to suit your own access requirements, but most common requirements are met with this design.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 04/01/2004
With the ease of deployment for .NET applications, WinForms are once again a viable solution for large deployment environments. If you're considering WinForm programming, Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET is a must-have.
Buying new servers and more direct-attached disks solves short-term storage issues but creates a bigger problem—the storage management nightmare. Network attached storage, which separates disks from servers, is one answer. We evaluate three top NAS solutions running Windows Storage Server.
Two tools that stop popups dead in their tracks
Enhance your UIs' flexibility with dynamic coding that uses runtime conditions to determine menu behavior.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 03/01/2004
The File Replication Service (FRS) has a justifiably bad reputation for bugginess and indecipherable logs. But recent changes from Redmond make it worth another look.
Group policy is constantly evolving and has new functionality within Windows Server 2003. Here’s some basic training on what it can do.
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- 03/01/2004
Visual Basic .NET Power Coding offers concise discussion and helpful examples of VB.NET's most complex topics, such as delegates, threading, remoting, Reflection, and security.
Three continents, incompetent management and an impossible deadline is a case study in how to NOT do a major upgrade.
- By Greg Neilson
- 03/01/2004
Systems engineer premier specialist titles for those whose job roles focus on messaging, security.
Sysadmin titles for those whose jobs focus on messaging, security.
This author figured that mirroring his e-mail drive was solid insurance against data loss. That theory was tested to the max when a drive failed.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 02/01/2004
Longhorn includes significant changes that will affect developers, from how it handles graphics to how it stores data. Learn how to create a simple Longhorn app.
- By Brent Rector
- 02/01/2004
Indigo is the core for communication in the next generation of Windows, code-named Longhorn. This model of its architecture gives you a good sense of what to expect from it.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2004
Use Word's spell check from within your .NET application.
- By Fabio Ferracchiati
- 02/01/2004
Avalon is a core part of Microsoft's presentation layer for its next major version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. Drill down on what it contains in this architecture model.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2004
It’s a truism in IT that various parts of your network—servers, hard drives, video cards, that mission-critical software program—will grind to a halt eventually. Here we present four disaster-recovery scenarios and how to recover from each.
- By Derek Melber
- 02/01/2004
Display data programmatically with only a few lines of code, using the databinding features built into the .NET Framework's WinForms controls.